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TIL Building a Toyota Prius is worse on the environment than building a regular car, due to mining of rare earth metals.

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wQg8 TIL the Tesla Model S’s roof is so strong it broke the testing machine used to crush car roofs.
E1oNV TIL: In the late 1970s, directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog collaborated on an Ed Gein documentary, but their project fell through.
PeXe TIL Hackers Could Launch Their Own Satellites to Create an ‘Uncensorable Internet’.
ErW TIL that sometime around 2000, the child labor laws changed in the UK in order to film the movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone”
ZpYnD TIL that the 1927 film "Napoléon" which spans 5 1/2 hours, was originally envisioned by its director Abel Gance to be first of six films about Napoleon's career. After the difficulties encountered in making the first film, he realised that the costs involved would make the full project impossible.